Golden Anniversary of the Nicotinic Receptor.
Journal
Neuron
ISSN: 1097-4199
Titre abrégé: Neuron
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8809320
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
08 07 2020
08 07 2020
Historique:
entrez:
10
7
2020
pubmed:
10
7
2020
medline:
26
9
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The high-resolution structure of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor from Torpedo electric tissue in association with the snake toxin α-bungarotoxin (Rahman et al., 2020) is presented 50 years after its identification as the first neurotransmitter receptor and ligand-gated ion channel.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32645305
pii: S0896-6273(20)30395-0
doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.05.026
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Bungarotoxins
0
Receptors, Nicotinic
0
Snake Venoms
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Comment
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
14-16Commentaires et corrections
Type : CommentOn
Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2020 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of Interests The author is part of two patents on the possible therapeutic use of nicotine and orthosteric or allosteric modulators of the nicotinic receptor against COVID-19. (See: Changeux, J.P., Amoura, Z., Rey, F., and Miyara, M. (2020). A nicotinic hypothesis for Covid-19 with preventive and therapeutic implications. Comptes Rendus Biologies 343, 1 33–39, https://doi.org/10.5802/crbiol.8.)